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Harvest

Sorry it’s been a while again, so I have a few weeks to catch up on! Friday was mine and Jacob’s second anniversary, and we went to London for the day to see the final version of Bat out of Hell the musical (which was AWESOME!!). While we were there, we ate at two of our favourite vegan-friendly places in the West End: Tibits and Yorica!

Usual messy plate-full-of-everything-imaginable:

Sadly I forgot to take a pic of my Yorica! frozen yogurt, but it was rainbow candy flavour with several types of sweets and sprinkles 🙂

A few other bits:

We have also been to Las Iguanas a couple of times, as they have several vegan dishes. If I’m honest, the chilli was a bit TOO spicy for me, but their mushroom fajita is yum

Vegan waggon-wheel (the instruction printed on it is unnecessary!):

Salted caramel ice-cream, which was perfect in the heat wave we’ve just had in England:

Lastly, Jacob and I have cooked with each other a few times recently, and here are the treats he’s made: a Fry’s ‘chicken’ pesto pasta, (with vegan sparkling wine from Harvest) and a pizza:

By the way, if it’s of interest, please do keep checking my Thoughts, FAQ & Mythbusting page, as it is constantly updates with ramblings; I find it’s a good way to consolidate my many thoughts and get them out of my head 🙂

Hey folks! I have recently been taste-testing a few items which have appeared in my local shops (oh dear, what a tough life…) 😀

Firstly, Follow Your Heart “pepper-Jack” cheese slices, which I found in Harvest!! I used to absolutely love spicy cheese, so this was a dream come true – I made cheese and tomato toasties with sandwich thins from Lidl 🙂

I know it’s a rubbish photo OK?!

I don’t have pictures of the other items, but I would recommend them:

Vegolino chocolates (just about worth the silly price, I think…!)

New vegan Cauldron sausages, made with beans and peppers – absolutely delicious

Linda McCartney pulled “chicken” – great in pasta!

The Vegolino chocs were also from Harvest, and the last two items are from Sainsbury’s.

Jacob and I treated ourselves to a lovely meat at The Green Rocket last week – I had Vietnamese curry and a vegan “Snickers bar”, and he had posh sausages and mash and sticky toffee pudding and ice-cream. We actually ended up swapping desserts, because we each like the other one’s more! 😀

Lastly, I’m just going to casually drop these fajitas here, as I think it might be my best food photograph so far (I know, I know, that’s not saying much, but hey… They were great 🙂 )

Since my very first post on this blog, I realised I have not posted a photo of a shop we have done, so wanted to post an example on here now 🙂 Every week, my mum and I go to town to Holland & Barrett, Harvest, and Sainsbury’s. Today, I was particularly looking forward to Sainsbury’s, as their new range of freefrom cheeses (or ‘Gary’ 😀 ) has recently come out!

So, here is out shopping trolley at the end of Sainsbury’s today, and what is in there from top to bottom:

Renee Zellweger and blokes ;D

Uncle Ben’s Mexican bean rice packs

Ainsley Harriott couscous packs

Organic potatoes

Fries to go (very handy microwave chips which actually taste nice!)

Freefrom Wensleydale and caramelised onion ‘Gary’

Nerds (this was a pack which had no non-vegan E numbers)

Some coconut yogurts (blueberry and mango & passion fruit)

Taste the difference pasta sauces

Moo Free orange milk-style chocolate

Spaghetti hoops

Chickpea dhal cans

Couple of soups

Uncle Ben’s sweet and sour rice time pots

Soya milks

Chocolate soya milk

Vegan mince

Cartons of kidney beans

Wholemeal lasagna sheets

Betty Crocker brownie mix

Maybe it’s just wishful thinking, but I do seem to be seeing more and more vegan-friendly items coming into the Sainsbury’s range these days… It must be the increase in veganism over the last year 🙂

Also, I made a lovely lunch today, from a recipe I saw in Vegan Life magazine: pitta breads with houmous, radish, cucumber and red onion, with avo on the side 🙂

Ciao peeps! It’s been a very hectic and stressful few days, mostly due to organising our imminent house move, and having to deal with some ignorant haters on social media. As a result, I spent most of the weekend feeing very despondent with people (which wasn’t helped by a couple of rude customers at work!). Having a caring personality is both a blessing and a curse at times, as it can feel isolating when you encounter a barrage of ignorance, and yet you know that what you stand for is important for everybody!

Something I have had to learn since going vegan is that, if you are feeling in any way run down, the insulting comments from others can easily bring your mood down. However, once things are a little better, and you speak to like-minded people again, you regain some faith in humanity 🙂

The main point of this post, though, is to share a delicious meal and some more useful vegan finds with you all 🙂

Last Friday, in between house viewings, Jacob and I popped into out favourite The Green Rocket Cafe for lunch, where I ordered something I haven’t tried before: a big mezze selection! I think it’s the yummiest thing I have tried there so far (which is saying something) and includes marinated tofu, salad and dressing, humous, an aubergine-tomato concoction, falafel, beetroot salad and quinoa. It was perfect for a hot day, and I felt very full but healthy afterwards!

Amazing mezze!

Yesterday, we went on a long shopping trip to town, which included Harvest, Holland & Barrett, Marks and Spencer, Lush and Sainsbury’s, and here are a few important things we picked up along the way:

M&S Spirit of Summer carnival fire cracker sweets – finally back in stock and as sweet, spicy and delicious as everybody has been saying!